By Susan Jones
| July 28, 2021 | 7:52am EDT
Masked schoolchildren in La Puente, California (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - CDC data shows that children are far less likely to die of COVID-19, and "that still holds true," Dr. Anthony Fauci told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Wednesday:
"It is true that, in general, the statistics that I have said, that when a child, or -- yes, a child -- gets infected that it is less likely that that person will have a serious outcome compared to an elderly person. That still holds true," Fauci said:
However, as you just said, correctly, Joe, when you have a lot of dynamics of infection, children are going to get infected. There's no doubt about that, and when children get infected, some of them, even though there aren't a lot of them -- some of them are going to get a serious outcome, and some of them are going to die.